# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1958_S39
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Lutheran Synodical Conference, 1958 89

and prestige. The need then would be for men of the golden mean
to avoid the falsehood of extremes and garner the unbelievable
harvest.

For about 80 years now the Synodical Conference has been
engaged chiefly in missionary work. It is a happy fact that the
friction so noticeable on the home front has rarely penetrated
our mission fields. It would be a shame to let the shadows of con-
troversy enter these areas of light. For missions, in spite of the
labor and sacrifice connected with them, are areas of light sur-
rounded by the glorious prospects described in the last six chapters
of the book of Isaiah. Toward these prospects — more sweeping,
grand, and beautiful than any we can imagine —the Synodical
Conference has pointed the way. May the synods, churches, and
church members who support it be inspired by its achievement!
Humbling themselves before their Lord, may they ever seek to
combine the life of contemplation with the service due to the
neighbor and preserve the purity of the church’s doctrine as they
perform the church’s worldwide task! ;